America the vulnerable
Subtitle: our military problems and how to fix them
By: edited by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman.
Contributors: Sicherman, Harvey.; Lehman, John F.; Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Publisher: Foreign Policy Research Institute
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: National security -- United States.; Terrorism -- United States.; Ballistic missile defenses -- United States.; Civil-military relations -- United States.; Asymmetric warfare.; United States -- Military policy.; United States -- Armed Forces.; United States -- Defenses.
Other titles: Our military problems and how to fix them
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"This volume brings together in one place nine essays commissioned for the three major conferences [of a Defense Task Force, held in 1996, 1998, 1999] plus five related essays from the pages of Orbis, FPRI's quarterly journal of world affairs, and an introductory essay that lays out plainly five threats to American security and what can be done about them"--Pref. (vii).
Table of contents: title: Preface -- John H. Ball; title: America the vulnerable -- John F. Lehman -- and -- Harvey Sicherman; title: Roles and missions -- Donald Kagan; title: Superpowers don't do windows -- John Hillen; title: The U.S. presumption of quick, costless wars -- Andrew P.N. Erdmann; title: Operations, procurement, and industrial base -- Harry G. Summers Jr.; title: Civil-military relations -- Eliot A. Cohen; title: The U.S. military must find its voice -- Sam C. Sarkesian -- An -- uninformed debate on military culture / -- Don M. Snider; title: Does military culture matter? -- Williamson Murray; title: Must U.S. military culture reform? -- John Hillen; title: The case for national missile defense -- Keith B. Payne; title: Rethinking bio-chemical dangers -- Henry Sokolski; title: Bad medicine for biological terror -- Andrew J. Bacevich; title: Asymmetrical adversaries -- Winn Schwartau -- The -- risks of a networked military / -- Richard J. Harknett -- and the -- JCISS Study Group.